Overriding overflow: hidden

Question

I have a parent container with a lot of child elements. Due to animation reasons (child elements sliding in and out of the parent) I have set it\'s overflow pro

Answer 1

Answer is: You can't. Either the parent has overflow:hidden then all child-elements will be clipped, or you have overflow:(visible|auto|scroll|...) then all children are treated according to that rule. There is no possibility you could mix states - all children are treated equally.

However, you could introduce additional container-elements inside the parent (which no longer has overflow:hidden) like in this pseudo-code:

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